On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Puneeth Chaganti <puncha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Travis Oliphant <tra...@continuum.io> wrote: > [snip] >> >> It would be nice if every pull request created a message to this list. Is >> that even possible? > > That is definitely possible and shouldn't be too hard to do, like > Jason said. But that can potentially cause some confusion, with some > of the discussion starting off in the mailing list, and some of the > discussion happening on the pull-request itself. Are my concerns > justified?
Related issue: some projects have an user's list and a devel list. It might be worth (re?)considering that option. They have their pros and cons but I think I like the idea of a devel list and seperate "help wanted" list. Something else that might be helpful for contentious threads is a stack-overflowesque system where readers can vote up responses of others. Sometimes just a "i agree" "i disagree" goes a long way, especially when you have many lurkers. On something else that was brought up: I do not consider myself competent/prepared enough to take on development, but it is not the case that I have _never_ felt the temptation. What I have found intimidating and styming is the perceived politics over development issues. The two places where I have felt this are a) on contentious threads on the list and b) what seems like legitimate patches tickets on trac that seem to be languishing for no compelling technical reason. I would be hardpressed to quote specifics, but I have encountered this feeling a few times. For my case it would not have mattered, because I doubt I would have contriuted anything useful. However, it might be the case that more competent lurkers might have felt the same way. The possibility of a patch relegated semipermanently to trac, or the possibility of getting caught up in the politics is bit of a disincentive. This is just an honest perception/observation. I am more of a get on with it, get the code out and rest will resolve itself eventually kind of a guy, thus long political/philosophical/epistemic threads distance me. I know there are legitimate reasons to have this discussions. But it seems to me that they get a bit too wordy here sometimes. My 10E-2. -- srean _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
